{"id":25776,"date":"2025-10-28T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/valerie-camillo-to-run-wta-tour-and-become-ventures-new-chairman\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:19:02","slug":"valerie-camillo-to-run-wta-tour-and-become-ventures-new-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/valerie-camillo-to-run-wta-tour-and-become-ventures-new-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Camillo to run WTA Tour and become Ventures&#8217; new chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8212; Valerie Camillo will assume leadership of women&#8217;s professional tennis as the new president of the WTA Tour and WTA Ventures, effective next month.<\/p>\n<p>The WTA announced Camilo&#8217;s hiring on Tuesday. She will start on November 17th, replacing outgoing tour chairman Steve Simon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am honored to lead the world&#8217;s number one women&#8217;s sport at such a critical time,&#8221; said Camilo. &#8220;The WTA has a long history of driving progress and pushing boundaries for athletes and fans alike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are important times for women&#8217;s tennis, with important decisions ahead that will shape the future of our players, tournaments, fans and partners,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Camilo serves on the boards of Herschend Family Entertainment and the University of Virginia Athletics Foundation. She previously served as president and CEO of Comcast Spectacor&#8217;s sports and entertainment division, where she oversaw business operations for the Philadelphia Flyers and Wells Fargo Center, and held senior positions with the Washington Nationals and NBA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8212; Valerie Camillo will assume leadership of women&#8217;s professional tennis as the new president of the WTA Tour and WTA Ventures, effective next month. The WTA announced Camilo&#8217;s hiring on Tuesday. She will start on November 17th, replacing outgoing tour chairman Steve Simon. &#8220;I am honored to lead the world&#8217;s number one women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6726,4253,1560,24,123,6725,3651,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-25776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-camillo","9":"tag-chairman","10":"tag-run","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-tour","13":"tag-valerie","14":"tag-ventures","15":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}